We empirically examine the impact of bank credit on agricultural output in South Africa using the Cobb-Douglas production function. We utilize time series data of agricultural output, bank credit, capital accumulation, ...

Access to credit by smallholder farmers in South Africa still remains a confounding problem. The aim of this paper is to identify the major sources of credit for smallholder farmers. A total of 362 smallholder farmers were ...

This paper examines the relationship between finance and growth in the agricultural sector in South Africa using a structural equation model (SEM) approach. A total of 500 smallholder farmers were surveyed in the Mpumalanga ...

Migrants often make remittances to their own country without adhering to the formal financial system of the host coun-try. The study reported in this article attempted to describe the prevalence of sending informal remittances ...

Access to credit for smallholder farmers remains a challenge in most developing countries. This paper examines the trend and pattern of bank credit to smallholder farmers in South Africa, both before and after the attainment ...